‘Committee on the Present Danger: China’ Exposes PRC ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ Against U.S. Manufacturers

Victims Address Economic ‘Premeditated Murder’ in Chicago

WASHINGTON —On June 22, before an audience of over 1,200 in Chicago-area’s Rana-Reagan Community Center, the National Indian American Public Policy Institute (NIAPPI) sponsored the latest Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) Threat Briefing about the Chinese Communist Party’s “unrestricted warfare” against the U.S. economy in general and the manufacturing sector in particular.

Conducted on the eve of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping in Japan Saturday, the unmistakable takeaway was that sustained tariffs are needed to reconstitute America’s industrial/manufacturing base, not a “trade deal” that restricts their application.

The program featured remarks by influential leaders in the political, national security, manufacturing, financial and economic arenas:

·Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar (Master of Ceremonies): Member, CPDC, and the founder and owner of the AVG Group of Companies

·Brian Kennedy, Chairman, CPDC, andPresident of the American Strategy Group

·Hon. Newt Gingrich (via video), former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

·Hon. Steve Bannon, Member, CPDC, and former Strategic Advisor to President Trump

·Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, USAF, Commander of the Air Education and Training Command

·Frank Gaffney, Vice Chairman, CPDC, founder and Executive Chairman of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (acting)

·Vikram Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, AVG Group of Companies, Chairman of the National Indian American Public Policy Institute

·Jayshree Patel, National Indian American Public Policy Institute

·Rep. Chris Stewart, Member of Congress from Utah

In addition, a panel of past and present executives of American electronics manufacturing companies afflicted by China’s predatory trade practices, theft of intellectual property and other techniques of unrestricted warfare included:

This panel represented U.S. manufacturers around the once-booming community of Elk Grove, Illinois, who together did over a $1 billion per year in sales, employing almost 10,000 people. Today, as a result of the Chinese Communist Party’s “premeditated murder” of this sector, they have reduced their workforce to just 500 employees and have annual earnings of approximately $50 million.

Bannon observed: “It’s about the demise of American manufacturing, and we are discussing it with a group of Hindu-Americans, who really built one of the great industries of this country—printed circuit boards, board assembly and other electronics manufacturing.”

He also spoke to how these business leaders achieved such success, coming to this country, educating themselves and doing it without any federal government handouts or other assistance.

“You did it with your own grit and determination,” Bannon said.

Alongside Bannon, one of those business leaders, host Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar, delivered a keynote speech emphasizing the sustained execution required to counter Communist China’s geopolitical might as it seeks Han-supremacy.

Kumar said, “This premeditated murder of the electronics industry by China was particularly brutal. I knew my [own] story but listening to a dozen other Hindu American businessmen who had no other recourse, it was painful. But, it is never too late. We can bring electronics manufacturing back to America, if we have sustained tariffs on all products manufactured in China.”

Videos of the Chicago event are available, as are those of the Committee on the Present Danger: China’s previous Threat Briefings, atwww.PresentDangerChina.org.

The CPDC’s mission statement:

The mission of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” is to help defend America through public education and advocacy against the full array of conventional and non-conventional dangers posed by the People’s Republic of China. As with the Soviet Union in the past, Communist China represents an existential and ideological threat to the United States and to the idea of freedom—one that requires a new American consensus regarding the policies and priorities required to defeat this threat. And for this purpose, it is necessary to bring to bear the collective skills, expertise and energies of a diverse group of experts on China, national security practitioners, human rights and religious freedom activists and others who have joined forces under the umbrella of the “Committee on Present Danger: China.”